Nankai University International E-Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

（第67期）

2025年南开大学人工智能与机器人国际学术讲坛

College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University

报告时间：2025年11月26日（周三）16:00-17:00

报告嘉宾：Veronica Iacovacci

腾讯会议：763 690 374

报告题目：Coping with medical microrobotics challenges: novel fabrication, control and imaging  paradigms

报告摘要：

Medical micro- and nanorobots have been demonstrated for a variety of non-invasive biomedical appli.cations. However, most of these demonstrations have been carried out in in vitro settings and undeoptical microscopy, being sohe ficandy dheerent froo tne cfecal practice gette centol and lmadinctasks. Grounding on this awareness, novel solutions for magnetic soft microrobots fabrication,.controand imaging in tissues will be presented. In the first part of the talk, a novel printing method for soft mi.crorobots with omnidirectional maqnetization profile will be presented towards enhanced multimodamicrorobots control. in the second part of the talk, a novel concept of distributed control will be presented to provide an alternative approach to cope with reduced controllability challenges at smalscales. In the last part of the talk, the use of ultrasound acoustic phase analysis for microrobot imagingand tracking in tissues will be presented. This type of ultrasound imaging in combination with magnetiactuation will finally result in the closed-loop control of magnetic microrobots in realistic environments

报告人简介：

Veronica Iacovacci obtained the M.Sc. Degree in Biomedical Engineering at University of Pisa in 2013 (full marks, cum laude) with a thesis entitled “Design and development of a mechatronic implantable system for the refilling of artificial organs” . In October 2013 she joined the Surgical Robotics and Allied technologies Area at Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant'Anna (SSSA) as a PhD student and she obtained the Ph.D. in Biorobotics (full marks, cum laude) with a thesis on smart magnetic microsystems for targeted therapy. Both thesis were awarded as best thesis by the Italian national Bioengineering group. From October 2018 to March 2019 she was Post-doctoral Fellow at the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich and from April 2019 to September 2020 at the

BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. From September 2023 to August 2023 Veronica was Marie Curie Skłodowska Global Fellow jointly at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa – Italy) and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong – SAR) with the project (MAMBO - Magnetic swarm for liver chemoembolization).Dr. Iacovacci was recently awarded with an ERC Starting grants to develop the first generation of implantable microrobots. She is currently Associate Professor in Biomedical Robotics. Her research interests include medical microrobots and fully implantable devices with a focus on programmable magnetic structures, high resolution imaging and tracking and wireless activation at small scales. She serves as Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics and for the main conferences dealing with medical robotics. She is principal investigator in several European project and supervisor of about 10 PhD and MSc students.